Ed Whitfield

Ed Whitfield (25 May 1943-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-KY 1) from 3 January 1995 to 6 September 2016, succeeding Tom Barlow and preceding James Comer.

Biography
Ed Whitfield was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1943, and he served in the US Army reserve from 1967 to 1973 before serving as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Whitfield went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 2016 as a Republican, and he resigned in 2016.